Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrast, the bequests to Marie of Rumania from her late husband, are not in cash but in the form of a life tenancy of Cotroceni, her favorite palace in Bucharest, plus barely sufficient life grants and stipends to keep the wolf a decent, royal distance from her door. Therefore, the departure of Marie of Jugoslavia, figuratively bearing 80,000,000 lei, must have tried her mother's nerves. So serene and queenly is Marie of Rumania, however, that two days later she was confiding optimistically to correspondents...
...reporter] quickly will find he can be truthful without being trite; accurate without being arrogant; unbiased without being unsophisticated; decent without being dull; and interesting without being inconsequential...
...redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings us to a point we have been trying to reach for some time--to wit: the locale is the indefinite tropics and there are many sinister references to "what this country will do to a decent woman." The local color includes a good deal of rain, one Chinese boy inserted presumably for comic interest, and many dark squat bottles lying around in handy places...
...rest of the men in the village, except that he sometimes got conspicuously drunk and beat his wife; on such occasions, his children, Alma, Woodrow Wilson, Smith, and Thelma, would stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty, who had married the village fire chief, Eugene Gatlin, went to him and made a confession. She said...
...Into the stodgiest period of English history minced "Dizzy," "in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers broidered with gold, a scarlet waistcoat, sparkling rings worn on top of white kid gloves." In decent black, Gladstone strode opposite?half-concealing his metaphysical doubts behind a truly British sense of duty. "At Oxford the young men drank less in 1840 because Gladstone had been...